Farm Freedom to Repair Act

Victoria Spartz

Republican · IN · Representative

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No cosponsors on record. Bills can pass without cosponsors — this often means the sponsor introduced the bill alone, either because it's a messaging bill, a chairman's mark, or simply early in the legislative cycle.

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

2026-03-05

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Farmers would gain the legal right to repair their own tractors and other agricultural equipment without being blocked by manufacturers' software locks or licensing restrictions. The bill would prevent equipment makers from using copyright laws and digital locks to force farmers to use only authorized repair shops, potentially saving farmers money on maintenance and repairs. This affects agricultural equipment manufacturers and farmers who currently face restrictions when trying to fix their own machinery.

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 7850 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7850 To amend title 17, United States Code, to provide for the diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of certain digital electronic agricultural equipment. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 5, 2026 Mrs. Spartz introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend title 17, United States Code, to provide for the diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of certain digital electronic agricultural equipment. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Farm Freedom to Repair Act''. SEC. 2. DIAGNOSIS, MAINTENANCE, AND REPAIR OF CERTAIN DIGITAL ELECTRONIC AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT. Section 1201 of title 17, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: ``(l) Diagnosis, Maintenance, and Repair of Digital Electronic Agricultural Equipment.--(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A), it is not a violation of that subsection for a person, for the purpose of the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment, to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. ``(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(2), it is not a violation of that subsection for a person, for the purpose of the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment, to manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof described in that subsection. ``(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b)(1), it is not a violation of that subsection for a person, for the purpose of the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital electronic agricultural equipment, to manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof described in that subsection. ``(4) For the purposes of this subsection, the term `digital electronic agricultural equipment' means any agricultural product dependent, in whole or in part, upon attached or embedded digital electronics to function.''. <all>

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